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To: piusv

Up until Francis, popes didn’t put doctrine on the table. He’s doing his best to lessen the primacy of the papacy in deference to “collegiality”.

He needs many prayers.


18 posted on 02/21/2014 3:59:10 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Doctrine has not been put on the table. Pope’s can’t change settled doctrine. Francis ain’t changing anything. Please quit worrying about it. He couldn’t even if he wanted to. On matters of moral and faith the Pope is infallible, which means he makes no errors. In other words all the Popes that came before Francis were also incapable of making error.

Papal infallibility is a dogma of the Catholic Church which states that, in virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error[1] “when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church”.[2]


24 posted on 02/21/2014 4:53:36 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("I never went to college, I was too busy learning stuff!" ~ Ted Nugent)
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